By Dave Hennen, CNN The developing bomb cyclone could cripple travel in the Midwest on some of the busiest travel days of the year. Welcome to winter! It officially begins at 4:48 p.m. ET Wednesday. Here’s what to know about the storm: This stormy pattern is touching nearly every state. There is currently a winter,
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By Aya Elamroussi and Jennifer Gray, CNN A major winter storm and cold blast will impact nearly every state and bring what the National Weather Service is calling a “once in a generation type event” that will cripple travel on some of the busiest travel days of the year. The strengthening storm will bring more
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By Aya Elamroussi and Jennifer Gray, CNN A major winter storm and cold blast will impact nearly every state and bring what the National Weather Service is calling a “once in a generation type event” that will cripple travel on some of the busiest travel days of the year. The strengthening storm will bring more
Continue Reading By Aya Elamroussi and Jennifer Gray, CNN A major winter storm and cold blast will impact nearly every state and bring what the National Weather Service is calling a “once in a generation type event” that will cripple travel on some of the busiest travel days of the year. The strengthening storm will bring more
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN A sprawling storm threatens to deliver a triple whammy of heavy snow and strong winds combined with bitterly cold temperatures to much of the US on Wednesday, lasting through the end of a busy travel week. Forecasters have been warning this week’s powerful storm could bring travel to a standstill as
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By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Earthquakes can be like Jell-O. A simple, yet often used analogy is that if you’re sitting in a valley or basin, it acts like a bowl of gelatin and it will shake more than surrounding rock. But not all earthquakes are created equal and the ground you walk on can
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By Emily Smith, CNN Earthquakes are measured using seismographs, which monitor the seismic waves that travel through the Earth after an earthquake strikes. Scientists used the Richter Scale for many years but now largely follow the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale, which the U.S. Geological Survey says is a more accurate measure of size. The Richter
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN For millions of Americans across a large swath of the country, the holiday week is beginning with unrelenting below-freezing temperatures made even more miserable by heavy snow expected Tuesday and Wednesday in several central and northwestern states. A developing ‘bomb cyclone’ has prompted alerts from Washington state to Maryland that cover
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By Jennifer Gray, CNN Meteorologist The coldest air of the season — by far — will dive down from Canada, bringing dangerously cold temperatures to millions this week. Temperatures will drop so low in some places that frostbite could begin in as little as five minutes on exposed skin. Temperatures are already cold to start
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN For millions of Americans across a large swath of the country, the holiday week is beginning with unrelenting below-freezing temperatures made even more miserable by heavy snow expected Tuesday and Wednesday in several central and northwestern states. A developing ‘bomb cyclone’ has prompted alerts from Washington state to Maryland that cover
Continue Reading By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist Astronomical winter officially begins this Wednesday and Jack Frost will arrive in full force. Temperatures will take a polar plunge this week, and even Florida won’t be spared, thanks to a strong high-pressure system sliding south from Canada. “Very cold Arctic air masses will envelop much of the central and
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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN After a nor’easter dropped more than a foot of snow across many parts of interior New England, more is on its way Saturday as officials warn of dangerous travel conditions the weekend before Christmas. The storm — part of a weather system that upended several communities in the South with deadly
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN The monstrous storm that walloped much of the US this week has now brought nor’easter conditions as it moves across New York and New England ahead of the weekend. After many in the South were left grappling with power outages and smashed homes and businesses from a spate of tornadoes earlier
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN The monstrous storm that walloped much of the US this week has now brought nor’easter conditions as it moves across New York and New England ahead of the weekend. After many in the South were left grappling with power outages and smashed homes and businesses from a spate of tornadoes earlier
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi, CNN The monstrous storm that walloped much of the US this week has now brought nor’easter conditions as it moves across New York and New England ahead of the weekend. After many in the South were left grappling with power outages and smashed homes and businesses from a string of tornadoes earlier
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Brandon Miller, CNN The massive storm system that pulverized homes, killed three people in Louisiana and brought blizzard conditions to northern states will inflict a new wave of brutal weather starting Thursday. Significant ice and heavy snow will smother parts of the Mid-Atlantic and New England, forecasters
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Amanda Watts, CNN The massive storm system that pulverized homes, killed three people in Louisiana and brought blizzard conditions to northern states is bringing a new wave of brutal weather starting Thursday. More than a foot of snow has covered parts of the upper Midwest since Monday,
Continue ReadingBy Nouran Salahieh, Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Amanda Watts, CNN The massive storm system that pulverized homes, killed three people in Louisiana and brought blizzard conditions to northern states is bringing a new wave of brutal weather starting Thursday. More than a foot of snow has covered parts of the upper Midwest since Monday,
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Robert Shackelford, CNN The deadly storm system that destroyed homes in the South was producing more tornadoes, freezing rain, treacherous travel and power outages Wednesday. At least two people were killed Tuesday in Louisiana as the system’s vicious winds tore through communities from Oklahoma to Texas to Mississippi. Another
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By Holly Yan, Monica Garrett and Robert Shackelford, CNN The deadly storm system that destroyed homes in the South was producing more tornadoes, freezing rain, treacherous travel and power outages Wednesday. At least two people were killed Tuesday in Louisiana as the system’s vicious winds tore through communities from Oklahoma to Texas to Mississippi. Another
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